Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

[sjt01]

Grain pusher

Starting with a rotten Sanderson grain bucket converted 18 years ago to JCB lugs, with old borehole pump tubes, base from a feed auger from the digester, bits of chassis rails from a 40 year old Solus feeder box, greedy board from Trioliet mixer once used on the digester, offcuts of bucket edge. Two new pieces of plate 100x100mm to close off ends of RHS.

Stephen

 

[Mursal]

If the MOD did grain, that would be the pusher for them ..............
Extremely well put together

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

If the MOD did grain, that would be the pusher for them ..............
Extremely well put together

Or it could be a mine clearance plough...

 

[Lofty1984]

Grain pusher

Starting with a rotten Sanderson grain bucket converted 18 years ago to JCB lugs, with old borehole pump tubes, base from a feed auger from the digester, bits of chassis rails from a 40 year old Solus feeder box, greedy board from Trioliet mixer once used on the digester, offcuts of bucket edge. Two new pieces of plate 100x100mm to close off ends of RHS.

Stephen

Hope you haven't got a boom safety cut out

 

[moo]

looks a bit on the heavy side

 

[Shovelhands]

A little surgery on the TV wall bracket today, new TV has narrower hole spacings, you'd think it would be standard....wrong....

 

[chickens and wheat]

I just use a bit of ply to covert tele size managed to loose some metal brackets so the thing is a lot slimmer now, new tvs weigh so little

 

[Lincsman]

A little surgery on the TV wall bracket today, new TV has narrower hole spacings, you'd think it would be standard....wrong....View attachment 441440 View attachment 441450

I take it that was home made in the first place, or is it for a 10 metre tv?

 

[Shovelhands]

I take it that was home made in the first place, or is it for a 10 metre tv?

Of course it's home made, these bent tin things you buy in the shops are just not adequate!

 

[Mursal]

Stud wall or precast?

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

A little surgery on the TV wall bracket today, new TV has narrower hole spacings, you'd think it would be standard....wrong....View attachment 441440 View attachment 441450

As it's homemade in surprised you didn't incorporate micrometer angle adjustments. It could have give in the full engineering thread then

 

[Shovelhands]

As it's homemade in surprised you didn't incorporate micrometer angle adjustments. It could have give in the full engineering thread then

Yeah, sorry, no micrometer adjustments, but it's does adjust in every plane.....I will get a pic of the assembled item later today, paint was a bit wet last night

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Yeah, sorry, no micrometer adjustments, but it's does adjust in every plane.....I will get a pic of the assembled item later today, paint was a bit wet last night

Surely that's the ideal time to refit it to the wall and secure a spot "in the shite club"

 

[Stock]

Well I'll row in here if you lads don't mind with a little project my son and I did..................

The ram is from a shear grab, I bought the engine and pump set as a non runner with less than 1000hrs.
The valve is specifically for a logsplitter. The engine is a 22 hp Yanmar with pumps made by Bosch.

These are a timber jack and a peavy

 

[Lincsman]

Well I'll row in here if you lads don't mind with a little project my son and I did..................

The ram is from a shear grab, I bought the engine and pump set as a non runner with less than 1000hrs.
The valve is specifically for a logsplitter. The engine is a 22 hp Yanmar with pumps made by Bosch.

These are a timber jack and a peavy

Whats the front green radiator do?, seems a little prone to damage?

 

[milkloss]

Well I'll row in here if you lads don't mind with a little project my son and I did..................

The ram is from a shear grab, I bought the engine and pump set as a non runner with less than 1000hrs.
The valve is specifically for a logsplitter. The engine is a 22 hp Yanmar with pumps made by Bosch.

These are a timber jack and a peavy

I like that timber jack, can't say I've ever seen one before. Looks a really handy tool.

 

[Philip Watkins]

Whats the front green radiator do?, seems a little prone to damage?

Oil cooler?

 

[Stock]

Whats the front green radiator do?, seems a little prone to damage?

During the trial phase the oil was heating as the valve I was using wasn't of sufficient flow so I fitted an oil cooler from a zetor 12045.................
No fear of damage as the work is at the other end...............................Been 2 yrs that way now.............

 

[pycoed]

I have a very old Twose backactor which I converted to a 3 point fitting to go on the back of my all-powerful UTB445DT. It's very limited compared to any mini digger, but is a lot better than the alternative bar & shovel!
A few years back I bent the dipper ram

I was digging some nasty rock in a stream bed at the time so put it down to operator error & inexperience. Got a new rod made since my lathe will only pass 1 1/8" through the spindle & rod was 1 1/4". Ram back together & all was fine for some months until I pulled out a small tree stump & found that the new rod had similarly bent
Since this wasn't really hard digging, but was close to the tractor, I was mystified as to how I had done it again, especially since they had taken a measurement directly from the original rod length.

After another new rod fitted, much cogitation & measuring later, I came to the conclusion that the stroke was too great, which led to the dipper ram going over centre, so that when the bucket applied a compression force back to the dipper, the rod would start to bend. Once started, of course the result was inevitable.


Hmmmm... further investigation showed that the bracket locating the dipper ram on the boom had been extensively repaired at some stage in the past & probably re welded too close to the end. After refitting the ram & carefully extending, I took some measurements to see how far the ram would over extend past the critical point. 7/8" was the reduction of stroke necessary. Off with the ram again & out with the piston rod.
I had a scout through the scrap bins & found some grey delrin-type plastic which had once been a pallet truck wheel. 10 mins on the lathe & a spacer was produced

Which I fitted where the red arrow shows between the piston & the end gland assembly



Result for 10mins lathework is a properly extending ram which should whistle be safe from future damage.
Look out Australia, here I come!

 

[Digester Man]

My first welding project, did a night class in the local college in stick welding basics and then bought myself a good Mig. These were the first results, feel free to add comments and suggestions..

Mobile work bench for the digester, with integrated Halfords tool chest and 1/2" plate top for welding and battering